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2018 Sussex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Sussex County, VA went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 95th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 579th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sussex County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 19, 2018 22:30 | June 20, 2018 04:00 | 5h 30m | 1,582 | 2,867 |
| 2 | October 11, 2018 21:15 | October 15, 2018 04:00 | 3d 6h | 1,291 | 16K |
| 3 | June 22, 2018 23:00 | June 24, 2018 01:45 | 1d 2h | 743 | 2,763 |
| 4 | November 13, 2018 02:00 | November 13, 2018 04:30 | 2h 30m | 722 | 1,082 |
| 5 | April 12, 2018 22:45 | April 13, 2018 01:00 | 2h 15m | 615 | 1,041 |
| 6 | August 14, 2018 16:30 | August 14, 2018 17:00 | 30m | 576 | 288 |
| 7 | March 2, 2018 07:00 | March 4, 2018 01:30 | 1d 18h | 572 | 7,963 |
| 8 | May 15, 2018 01:15 | May 15, 2018 15:15 | 14h | 310 | 1,334 |
| 9 | August 22, 2018 10:45 | August 22, 2018 19:00 | 8h 15m | 214 | 68 |
| 10 | December 13, 2018 03:15 | December 13, 2018 08:30 | 5h 15m | 212 | 709 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 19 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Sussex County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 40.6 hrs | 4.32 | 5.1 hrs | 2.55 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 24.8 hrs | 3.48 | 3.7 hrs | 2.12 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2018 | 9.5 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
| Community Electric Coop | 2018 | 6.4 hrs | 2.49 | 3.0 hrs | 1.69 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wakefield - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,419 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex County, VA annual power outage report, 2018, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/virginia/sussex-county